MBW 859: Slip Into The Warm Apple Bath - Marco Arment, iPhone SE, Ads on TV Plus
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
- Steve Jobs Archive shares a special photo memory of the late Apple co-founder with the Mac in 1984.
- Apple has procured TSMC's entire first run of 3nm chips.
- Apple suppliers leaving China.
- New iPhone SE with 6.1-inch OLED display and Apple's 5G chip planned.
- Chrome tweaked to improve memory use & battery life on MacBook.
- Apple's noninvasive blood glucose technology for future Apple Watch reaches 'proof-of concept' stage.
- Schools are banning Apple Watches.
- A woman who got locked out of her Apple account minutes after her iPhone was stolen and had $10,000 taken from her bank account says Apple was 'not helpful at all'.
- Apple: massive decline in net cash.
- Apple takes another step towards ads on TV Plus.
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko
Guest: Marco Arment
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac break weekly and he's here. Alex is here. |
| 0:04.3 | Jason Snell is still in New Zealand, but we've got a great replacement. Marco Arment joins us. |
| 0:09.5 | He was lead developer on Tumblr back in the day. You might remember his Insta paper and of course |
| 0:14.9 | he is currently the guy, the one man guy, one man band behind the best podcast player out there |
| 0:21.1 | overcast. He also has a lot to say about the future of podcasting and we're going to have a lot of |
| 0:27.2 | fun. Mac break weekly is next podcast. You love from people you trust. This is Twit. |
| 0:41.2 | This is Mac break weekly episode 859 recorded Tuesday, February 28, 2023. Slip into the warm apple bath. |
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| 1:29.6 | It's time for Mac break weekly the show we cover the latest Apple news of which there is precious |
| 1:35.5 | little but we'll find something to talk about. Actually there's some good news. Jason Snell is |
| 1:40.2 | still in Kiwi land. New Zealand so we have brought in a ringer but I'll introduce him in a moment |
| 1:46.7 | but first Alex Lindsay's here from officehours.globalan090.media. Hello, hello, Alex. He was on |
| 1:55.3 | Twitter on Sunday and you mid-journeyed the title and we used it as our thumbnail. You didn't use |
| 2:01.6 | the goofy one though. There was two that were relatively on point and then there was one that was |
| 2:07.9 | just completely weird and absurd. I was like, I wonder if they're going to use that. Who edited that? |
| 2:13.0 | Was that Kevin? Kevin decided to go. He went to him. I saw those images. I think it was safer |
| 2:22.0 | that we went with the goofy one. Let me just look. Which one was the goofy one? |
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